July 27, 2024
Tag: silhouette artists
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Silhouettes
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Silhouettes were once among the most popular forms of art. Anyone could afford a silhouette because they were sold in resort gift shops and on seaside boardwalks. The one my mother had made of me came from Coney Island.
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December 30, 2021 8 Comments
Those who lived during the Depression and the war years that followed are elderly today and most memories of the era have vanished. The consequence is that we must turn to the history books and the artists to understand the 1930s and ‘40s. Ray Hoyt’s history and Marshall Davis’s art combined in the book We Can Take It! is a perfect first step.